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The Heroic Age is currently inviting papers on the following topics:

LAST CALL: Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact

Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations.

Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be sent to Larry Swain.

Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands

This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the Carolingian kingdom(s) and the relationship between empire and "periphery". Possible topics might include, but not be limited to: the Spanish March, Carolingians and England and Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, Carolingian "foreign policy" and trade, cross-border/cultural/linguistic influences, Italy, Byzantine Empire and the Carolingians, Saxons, Avars and Slavs just to name a few. The focus is on the regions surrounding the Carolingians and possibly Carolingian relationships with those borderlands whether political, religious, or cultural.

Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be sent to Larry Swain.

Issue 18: Occitan Poetry

We would like to invite submissions for the special 2012 issue of HA on Occitan poetry, edited by Anna Klosowska (Miami U. of OH). We are interested in submissions including but not limited to the following topics and approaches:

editions or translations of a short text or texts or a portion of a longer text (especially lesser known texts) transnational and postcolonial approaches, Jewish, Arabic, Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and cultural studies feminism, queer theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, history of emotions, history of subjectivity, critical animal studies philology, musicology, poetics, manuscript study, material history and history of ideas, medievalism Publication: June 2012 (online) Final revisions due: March 1, 2012 Response from anonymous readers by: December 1, 2012 Submission due: July 1, 2011

Submissions should be 3000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be sent to Anna Klosowska, Special Issue Editor.